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IBM Corp. said Friday it has closed its acquisition of AT&T Inc.'s Sterling Commerce unit, which makes software that helps businesses buy and sell to each other.IBM had agreed to pay $1.4 billion in cash for Dublin, Ohio-based Sterling in May.Sterling runs "collaboration networks," which lets...

Hewlett-Packard Co. and Dell Inc. are both trying to buy the data-storage provider 3Par Inc. Here are some details on 3Par:Q: What does 3Par do?A: 3Par makes and sells "storage utilities," or groups of specialized computers designed to store data that are frequently updated. The company has...

Microsoft co-founder and billionaire Paul Allen is suing nearly a dozen major technology companies, including Google Inc. and Apple Inc., alleging that they infringed on four Web technology patents held by his company Interval Licensing LLC.Interval said Friday it filed the suit in a U.S....

Americans are using less energy overall and making more use of renewable energy resources. The United States used significantly less coal and petroleum in 2009 than in 2008, and significantly more wind power. There...

Saft introduced its advanced lithium-ion (Li-ion) battery technology which it says offers interesting new possibilities for the creation of highly efficient and cost-effective marine propulsion and auxiliary systems. Saft states that it has a...

Neo Solar Power Corp., a solar cell manufacturer, announced the beginning of construction on a southern Taiwan operations hub that is expected to be capable of producing 3.4GW of solar cells a year after...

Electronic-payment provider VeriFone Systems Inc. said Friday that a federal judge in California dismissed a shareholder derivative lawsuit against some of the company's current and former directors and executives.The lawsuit was filed after the company restated quarterly financial results from...

Microsoft Corp. will invest up to $499 million and create 50 new jobs at a data center in Mecklenburg County.In making the announcement Friday, Gov. Bob McDonnell called it the largest economic investment in Southern Virginia history.Virginia beat out North Carolina and Texas for the facility.

(Rutgers University) The National Science Foundation has awarded a three-year, $7.5 million grant to a Rutgers-led research team to develop a future Internet design optimized for mobile networking and communication. The team of nine universities and several industrial partners has dubbed...

Eons ago, (well, it seems like eons) when IBM designed its original PC, it took note of the success of the Apple II with it's modular expansion system - easily accessible card slots with loads of clear documentation - and...

Warner Bros. and the Walt Disney Co. have teamed up in a new legal effort to choke off the air supply of various web sites that post and index links to pirated movies. The two studios are suing Triton Media, alleged to have provided advertising consulting and referrals for nine websites identified as "one-stop-shops" for infringing works.

Hewlett-Packard Co. (NYSE:HPQ) boosted its bid for 3Par Inc. to US$1.88 billion Friday, topping Dell Inc.'s offer by 11 per cent and again raising the stakes in the bidding contest for the data-storage company.The $30-per-share offer from HP came just hours after Dell (NASDAQ:DELL) matched HP's...

(Carnegie Mellon University) Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University will lead a three-year, $7.1 million effort sponsored by the National Science Foundation to develop a next-generation network architecture that fixes security and reliability deficiencies now threatening the viability...